Geoffrey Howe famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There was no question of generation change or saying goodbye to the past or modernizing sloganising.
-- Geoffrey Howe

#Goodbye #Past #Generations
The well-being of the British people and the health of our economy are far more important than any government's commitment to a particular strategy, but to change course now would be fatal to the whole counter-inflation strategy.
-- Geoffrey Howe

#Commitment #Government #People
It's one of the reasons [professional politicians] why people's confidence in the electoral system has declined so much. They have all become shadowy political creatures
-- Geoffrey Howe

#People #Political #Politician
Margaret Thatcher was beyond argument a great Prime Minister. Her tragedy is that she may be remembered less for the brilliance of her many achievements than for the recklessness with which she later sought to impose her own increasingly uncompromising views.
-- Geoffrey Howe

#Views #Achievement #Tragedy
I personally feel very undecided whether it is better for a woman to stay and look after the home or go out to a job.
-- Geoffrey Howe

#Jobs #Home #Feminism

I won't leave you but you need to go on up and say your goodbyes. I'll stand right here behind you," Beau whispered from beside me
I am made for autumn. Summer and I have a fickle relationship, but everything about autumn is perfect to me. Woolly jumpers, Wellington boot, scarves, thin first, then thick, socks. The low slanting light, the crisp mornings, the chill in my fingers, those last warm sunny days before the rain and the wind. Her moody hues and subdued palate punctuated every now and again by a brilliant orange, scarlet or copper goodbye. She is my true love.
Think of me, think of me fondly When we've said goodbye Remember me once in a while Please promise me, you'll try... Recall those days, look back on all those times Think of those things we'll never do There will never be a day When I won't think of you... Can it be? Can it be Christine... Long ago, it seems so long ago How young and innocent we were She may not remember me But I remember her
In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all.
I didn't think about anything past tomorrow because anything past tomorrow was just like cloud busting - it depended soley on the person looking at the clouds and it could rain any minute
How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? "No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work without some awareness of what was going on in other visual media, and for that matter neither the painter nor the draughtsman could ignore photography."
We therefore must keep the faith, despite the defeat of policies, because men pass with their policies whilst generations follow each other.
I had a feeling that my generation-and me, also-we were naked. We did not belong to anything.
The next generation product almost never comes from the previous generation.
Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.

Geoffrey Howe famous quotes

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